What if I told you police in your town could desensitize themselves to the idea of shooting a (armed) child, pregnant woman, or young mother, for just a couple of bucks? The "No More Hesitation" series from Law Enforcement Targets Inc. offers exactly that. For less than 99 cents per target, police can shoot at real-life images "designed to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training."

Update: The marketing team at Law Enforcement Targets, Inc. sends along this helpful explanation for the "No More Hesitation" series:

"The subjects in NMH targets were chosen in order to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training. I found while speaking with officers and trainers in the law enforcement community that there is a hesitation on the part of cops when deadly force is required on subjects with atypical age, frailty or condition (one officer explaining that he enlarged photos of his own kids to use as targets so that he would not be caught off guard with such a drastically new experience while on duty). This hesitation time may be only seconds but that is not acceptable when officers are losing their lives in these same situations. The goal of NMH is to break that stereotype on the range, regardless of how slim the chances are of encountering a real life scenario that involves a child, pregnant woman, etc. If that initial hesitation time can be cut down due to range experience, the officer and community are better served."

I've been watching this unfold. Action Targets, which bought Law Enforcement Targets, tried to distance themselves from the situation. Now both have "apologies" posted on their Facebook pages:

"We apologize for the offensive nature of our No More Hesitation products. These products have been taken offline due to the opinions expressed by so many, including members of the law enforcement community.

This product line was originally requested and designed by the law enforcement community to train police officers for unusually complex situations where split-second decisions could lead to unnecessary loss of life.

Consistent with our company mission as a training supplier (not a training methods company), we will continue to seek input from law enforcement professionals to better serve their training objectives and qualification needs. We sincerely appreciate law enforcement professionals for the risks they take in providing safety and defending freedom."

They have pictures at the source article. The targets are depicting holding real weapons so they are intended to be shot, reducing the inhibitions of cops from shooting children, pregnant women and old people regardless of the unlikelihood of the scenario.

Once on the Internet always on the Internet. These are the targets before they took them off their web site. The targets are still available for purchase.

For the person that thinks this is a shoot/no-shoot type of poster, wrong. These are "shoot!" posters; people supposedly posing a threat by pointing a gun. The cop is supposed to shoot these as a desensitizing training to shoot ordinary people.

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posted on 02/21/2013 5:49:40 PM PST
by CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)

“I found while speaking with officers and trainers in the law enforcement community that there is a hesitation on the part of cops when deadly force is required on subjects with atypical age, frailty or condition (one officer explaining that he enlarged photos of his own kids to use as targets so that he would not be caught off guard with such a drastically new experience while on duty). This hesitation time may be only seconds but that is not acceptable when officers are losing their lives in these same situations.”

Anyway, “No More Hesitation”? That’s hardly ambiguous as to the purpose.

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posted on 02/21/2013 5:53:39 PM PST
by Politicalmom
(Liberalism. Ideas so great they have to be mandatory.-FReeper Osage Orange)

Infowars has been all over this. They interviewed company officials and LEOs. The targets were custom made to DHS specifications to fill a new DHS order. The LEO and military commentators stated the purpose of the targets was for desensitizing agents.

The company says they’ve taken them “offline” but I bet they’re still filling the contract. I suppose they’ll soon have an SSL product page.

All the situations depict apprehension of unsuspecting, armed civilians. A pregnant woman in a nursery and a elderly woman in a bathrobe in her kitchen? C’mon!ll soon have an SSL product page.

All the situations depict apprehension of unsuspecting, armed civilians. A pregnant woman in a nursery and a elderly woman in a bathrobe in her kitchen? C

The targets are depicting holding real weapons so they are intended to be shot, reducing the inhibitions of cops from shooting children, pregnant women and old people regardless of the unlikelihood of the scenario.

Most of the pictures could be people performing self defense actions. It is probably to train DHS agents doing “No-Knock” raids to shoot anyone who may be daring to defend themselves from an attacker they don;t know is actually a government agent...

Infowars has been all over this. They interviewed company officials and LEOs. The targets were custom made to DHS specifications to fill a new DHS order. The LEO and military commentators stated the purpose of the targets was for desensitizing agents.

I saw a story from the next township over last night where a cop would have been justified in shooting but didn’t.

Some punk kicked in the door of a house and hit the old man living there in the face with the butt of a shotgun. A cop arrived (by chance) to find the kid in the doorway with the old man on the ground. Apparently the kid hesitated when he was told to drop the gun but changed his mind when the cop told him that he had one chance.

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posted on 02/21/2013 6:39:00 PM PST
by cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)

Um, Action Targets posted an “apology” on their Facebook page regarding the targets in question. What they said was they took the targets offline, not that they had discontinued selling them or that they pulled back the targets for sale.

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